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Post by Firearm: Supposed Big Deal on Aug 18, 2010 10:52:30 GMT -5
This thread reminded me that I still need to delete his instrumental theme from my iPod. I always get creeped out when it comes up and hit "skip". The Our Lady Peace theme, however, will stay, because I mark for OLP.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Aug 18, 2010 11:31:23 GMT -5
I'm watching old Raw and Smackdown episodes from as far back as I can find them to the present. Yesterday I got to the Raw where the Radicalz debuted. I was dreading coming to this bridge, and here we are, and it's as surreal as I thought it would be.
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Post by JMA on Aug 18, 2010 13:38:01 GMT -5
Personally, I can still watch Benoit matches without much trouble. There's always a little hesitation, but not enough to stop me from watching them.
The only weird part is seeing him take chair-shots and other hits to the head.
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Post by Turd Ferguson on Aug 18, 2010 13:44:26 GMT -5
I'm watching old Raw and Smackdown episodes from as far back as I can find them to the present. Yesterday I got to the Raw where the Radicalz debuted. I was dreading coming to this bridge, and here we are, and it's as surreal as I thought it would be. I was all excited about setting aside time on weekends to start watching all of 2001 (my favorite year) Raw, Smackdown, and PPVs, everything. It was great. Watching his matches, promos, etc. were all fine. But then came the Raw immediately after KoTR. I was actually there in MSG. I remember the show so fondly. Unfortunately, what happened halfway through the show gave me an icy knot in my stomach. They showed Chris going to Lloyd Youngblood (I think, in any case, it was the doctor), and he was there with Nancy. Now I can't watch that episode again.
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 18, 2010 13:46:16 GMT -5
Only era of Benoit that creeps me out is near the end. His WCW stuff and as Pegasus Kid are not that weird to me.
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Post by agent817 on Aug 18, 2010 13:52:14 GMT -5
Personally, I can still watch Benoit matches without much trouble. There's always a little hesitation, but not enough to stop me from watching them. The only weird part is seeing him take chair-shots and other hits to the head. Like I mentioned, I slowly became able to watch a match of his without hesitation, but I slowly got to that level again. However, I will admit that back in the spring, I saw a used copy of his Hard Knocks DVD available at a place called Dimple Records. I was a little tempted to buy it, but at the same time, I wondered if it would have been a good idea to do so. Somebody else beat me to it, by the way. I was deliberating on whether I should. At the time, there was a thread about his DVD and people said that it's fine to watch the matches, but the documentary kind of leaves a bad taste in someone's mouth considering what would happen 3 years after it was released. Also, I still have my copy of Backlash 2004, the same one that had Benoit on the cover. I popped it in and there were some things that I remembered and one thing I totally forgot about and it kind of made me think. The part about Benoit's family being at ringside, as well as the Chris Benoit Day part.
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Post by He Mad on Aug 18, 2010 14:35:03 GMT -5
I remember it was Sunday, June 24th, I was really excited because it was both my birthday and the day of the Night of Champions PPV. I was a student at the Storm Wrestling Academy in Calgary and I went to see the PPV at a movie theater. I remember thinking it was really strange of Chris Benoit to miss a show, especially a title shot against a great wrestler like CM Punk.
I was always a huge Chris Benoit fan, and my best friend from the wrestling school Bruno idolized him. Everybody at the school was really shocked, and I remember Lance cancelled training that Monday. I didn't know about his personal life, but it was so hard to believe someone like Benoit could do that.
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Post by Firearm: Supposed Big Deal on Aug 18, 2010 17:50:30 GMT -5
Oh, and also, I remember playing SvR07 at the time of the murder, and I immediately deactivated Benoit from the GM Mode roster.
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Aug 18, 2010 22:11:28 GMT -5
I figured it was a murder suicide when I heard it. Honestly... I wish this topic would just die. I don't know what's more annoying, endless arguing over the screwjob or endless talking about a damned murder.
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Post by Starshine on Aug 18, 2010 22:16:35 GMT -5
My only responce was shock and a feeling of numbness.
It was so hard to take in when I'd been such a big fan of the man.
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Post by nisidhe on Aug 18, 2010 23:38:55 GMT -5
Maybe this will end the thread.
I was heartbroken, then angry, then afraid - I wasn't much of a believer then but the old fear of hellfire and brimstone still rears its head at times like this. At the time, my first response was carbon monoxide poisoning, then when they announced that the "instruments of death" were found I honestly believed that either burglars or thugs had taken out all three of them or that Nancy was responsible somehow. I don't think anybody wanted to believe that Chris would have done this.
Then, when police confirmed what apparently happened and, to top it all off, provided the initial timeframe of Nancy on Friday night, Daniel on Saturday, then Chris on Sunday night or early Monday, it seemed as though all hell broke loose in wrestling fandom. Between the "Burn in hell" posts and the anti-fans blasting everything about wrestling, it was hard to admit that I had been a wrestling fan,and all but impossible to admit to having liked Chris Benoit without getting utterly shot down. At every turn it seemed someone was plunging another knife into my heart: the darker part of me will dance on Tom Billington's grave for what he told the Globe tabloid.
I cried; I prayed, for the first time in a very long time - for someone - anyone - who might have a kind word for a fellow wrestler; for some fuller explanation of what happened, and for the soul of a man who never laid eyes on me but loved me and my fellow fans. Bret Hart obliged on the first front; Chris Nowinski on the second. As for the third - well, I suppose I won't find out for sure until I die whether the prayers worked.
I don't watch much wrestling anymore, though I will watch old matches on YouTube, including Benoit's. I won't watch anything with Nancy in it, though: I always had a visceral antipathy towards her and thought, back in my old R.S.P-W days when she and Chris were first linked together, that it was all going to end in tears. In the end, I guess the pain of losing so many was just too much for me.
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Post by He Mad on Aug 19, 2010 1:35:39 GMT -5
Maybe this will end the thread. I was heartbroken, then angry, then afraid - I wasn't much of a believer then but the old fear of hellfire and brimstone still rears its head at times like this. At the time, my first response was carbon monoxide poisoning, then when they announced that the "instruments of death" were found I honestly believed that either burglars or thugs had taken out all three of them or that Nancy was responsible somehow. I don't think anybody wanted to believe that Chris would have done this. Then, when police confirmed what apparently happened and, to top it all off, provided the initial timeframe of Nancy on Friday night, Daniel on Saturday, then Chris on Sunday night or early Monday, it seemed as though all hell broke loose in wrestling fandom. Between the "Burn in hell" posts and the anti-fans blasting everything about wrestling, it was hard to admit that I had been a wrestling fan,and all but impossible to admit to having liked Chris Benoit without getting utterly shot down. At every turn it seemed someone was plunging another knife into my heart: the darker part of me will dance on Tom Billington's grave for what he told the Globe tabloid. I cried; I prayed, for the first time in a very long time - for someone - anyone - who might have a kind word for a fellow wrestler; for some fuller explanation of what happened, and for the soul of a man who never laid eyes on me but loved me and my fellow fans. Bret Hart obliged on the first front; Chris Nowinski on the second. As for the third - well, I suppose I won't find out for sure until I die whether the prayers worked. I don't watch much wrestling anymore, though I will watch old matches on YouTube, including Benoit's. I won't watch anything with Nancy in it, though: I always had a visceral antipathy towards her and thought, back in my old R.S.P-W days when she and Chris were first linked together, that it was all going to end in tears. In the end, I guess the pain of losing so many was just too much for me. That's deep. I can't relate though, I can't imagine anything ever keeping me away from wrestling.
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Post by saintchancellor on Aug 19, 2010 1:41:03 GMT -5
I figured it was a murder suicide when I heard it. Honestly... I wish this topic would just die. I don't know what's more annoying, endless arguing over the screwjob or endless talking about a damned murder. I apologize. ![:-[](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/embarrassed.png)
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Aug 19, 2010 1:42:40 GMT -5
No reason to apologize. It's easier to avoid threads ya have no interest in than it is to click on something and then post your displeasure.
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Aug 19, 2010 1:44:46 GMT -5
I was horrified because I'd been a huge Benoit fan since I first saw him debut in WCW back in 1995. My gut reaction to the story was that they'd been murdered. When I found out that Benoit did it himself, I was heartbroken. I still don't really have the words to describe how I feel about it.
I guess "disgusted" would be the one word I'd use to sum it all up.
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Post by saintchancellor on Aug 19, 2010 1:55:47 GMT -5
No reason to apologize. It's easier to avoid threads ya have no interest in than it is to click on something and then post your displeasure. I suppose so.. I think when it all happened, it created this feeling that wrestling was bad in all ways to the general media and it's all reaching, a good topic to talk about. If it was brought up everyday, then not so much, haha.
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Post by celticjobber on Aug 19, 2010 2:47:28 GMT -5
I had a poster on my wall with Eddie and Chris both hitting their finishers (the headbutt and frog splash). I took it down once it came out that Benoit had murdered his family.
And I still can't bring myself to watch any of his matches.
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Post by don on Aug 19, 2010 11:32:21 GMT -5
I was in college at the time and I only had internet access via the library. I hadn't had a chance to get on the internet at all on Monday. I hadn't even watched the news because I was working on a project. The first time that I was able to watch television that day was when Raw came on. I was looking forward to that episode, as it was supposed to be a Vince McMahon tribute show, and I thought it would be a fun show. Then, I looked up and the first thing I saw was the "in memory" graphic, which didn't shock me at first, as I expected the show to open with an "In Memory of Vince McMahon" graphic. I did a double take when I realized it was Chris Benoit on the picture and not Vince McMahon. Then, seeing Vince McMahon in the ring, with tears in his eyes, made it real to me, as Vince was basically breaking character (he was supposedly dead from the limo explosion) and saying that he was not going to trivialize this very real tragedy by pretending that his character was dead. Then, when I heard Vince say that not only was Benoit dead, but his family was too, I lost it. I started sobbing uncontrollably. (And no it was not because Benoit was a celebrity; I always cry whenever I hear about a child's death.) I was just so shocked and saddened by the whole situation. I just knew that it had to be something like a house fire, CO poisoning, or a robbery gone wrong. I even thought Benoit may have killed himself after coming home to find that his wife and son had been murdered while he was away. I envisioned so many scenarios, none as tragic as the one we got.
As the show went on, I kind of figured out what happened, listening to the various wrestler testimonials and tributes about him. First, there were only a handful of wrestlers who seemed willing to even talk about him. Compare the number of wrestlers who spoke on the Own Hart or Eddie Guerrero tributes to the number of people who spoke on Benoit's and you'll see what I mean. I kept noticing how everyone would make it a point to not say "He was a good man; I'm sure he's in heaven; etc." Instead, You kept hearing, "He was a great wrestler; he was a true professional; etc." Then, when William Regal said something along the lines of "One day, I hope that I can sit here and tell you that he was a good, decent, and loving man, but for now, all I'm willing to say is that he was a great wrestler..." I had it figured out.
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Post by cuneo77 on Aug 19, 2010 11:58:12 GMT -5
i was at the ppv,looking forward to him vs punk. i looked at my gal and said "he is comes" then nitrocame out. it wasnt till 5 the next day i saw the healines. total shock and betrayd. I was hoping that some how he got framed. before the details i thought gas leak too..
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Post by I *still* ✡ Johnny on Aug 19, 2010 12:27:35 GMT -5
I missed the first airing of Raw due to school, and I only found out the next day.
I stopped watching from that point on. I wasn't affected much, and I didn't find out it was a murder/suicide until later. I started watching again in 2009, when all the young guys were coming into play.
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